Physics I & II Preps

PHYSICS I

Modern Galileo Experiment, Picket Fence Free Fall

- Photogate- Ringstand to hold gate- Plastic fences

Addition of Vectors

- Force Tables- Slotted weights

Projectile Motion

- Track (one end elevated) and - steel ball- Double photogates hooked by a pipet- Paper on floor (w/carbon paper)- Plum bobs

Newton's Second Law

- Tracks- Plunger carts- Motion sensors

Static and Kinetic Friction

- Tracks - Friction carts- Pulleys- Hanging weights- Motion sensor

Uniform Circular Motion

- Spinning hanging weights ( apparatus)

Energy of a Tossed Ball

(Video Analysis)

- Meter sticks taped to walls- Video camera/ tripod- Video processing software- Basketball

Impulse and Momentum

- Tracks- Carts - Force probes

Momentum, Energy and Collisions

- Collision carts- Tracks- Rubber bands- Force probes

Rotational Motion

- Rotational Motion app ( large spinning disc)

- Pulleys clamped to edge of bench- Slotted weights

Equilibrium - Metal rods ( two vert. one horiz.)- Force probes x2- Metal clips and metal rings

Coefficient of Linear Expansion

- Steam generators- Metal rods and jackets- Multi Meters for continuity

The Gas Laws - Chem Gas Law’s Appar.

Heat of Fusion and

Vaporization

PHYSICS II

Standing waves on strings

- Wave generator- String - Pulley at edge of table

Resonance of air columns

- Cenco standing wave Appt (long white box on top of cabinets)

- Oscilloscope- Signal Generator

Electrical field mapping

- Paper Circuit- Silver pens- Power supply - Multimeter

The charge on an electron, Millikan's oil drop experiment

- Millikan's Appt w/ ring stand- Isopropyl Alcohol+ Distilled water - for

suspending plastic beads- Smaller power supply- Multimeter

Ohm's Law - Vernier Circuit Board- Current voltage probes- Power supply

Joules' Law - Calorimeter- Multimeter- Rheostat- Power supply

Series/parallel circuits

- See Ohm’s Law setup

Determination of RC Time Constant

- “bread boards” from Electronics Lab- 0.33microF caps ‘blue’- Multimeters- Power supply- timer

Force on a current carrying conductor in

a magnetic field

- Triple beam balances- Rheostat- Ring stand- Multimeter as Ammeter

The Magnetic Field of a Slinky

- Slinky (taped stretched)- Magnetic field sensor (vernier)- Rheostat- Power supply- Multimeter as Ammeter

Geometric Optics

- Laser- Polished metal convex/concave mirrors- Plane mirrors- Cardboard and pins

Measurement of the focal length

of a lens

- Optical Benches ( top of cabinets)- Lenses- Frosted glass screen with gradations- Black plate with arrow cutouts

Single slit and Double Slit diffraction

patterns

- Tracks- Pasco Red Diode Laser Apparatus- Large frosted glass screen

Polarization of Light

- Clip boards with polarized filters- Optical benches- Vernier light sensor- Ring stands and clamps

The Hydrogen Spectrum and the

Rydeberg constant

- Gas lamp sources- Grating Spectrometer

-AC circuits and the oscilloscope

- Power supplies - Oscilloscopes

-Construction of a voltmeter and an ammeter

- Power supplies - Oscilloscopes

-Radioactivity and the Geiger Counter

- Power supplies - Oscilloscopes